In October of the twelfth year of Yangming, Yang Xinyue burned the palace after the abolition and committed suicide, and the Jiaofang Palace was turned into ashes overnight. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In the thirteenth year of the Yang Ming Dynasty, His Majesty asked the Jiaofang Hall to be rebuilt, and the pavilions and water pavilions were rebuilt on the original site, imitating the old system. After the new rear Fang clan was sealed, it moved from the Zhaoming Hall to the pepper room, and the layout of the palace should be as before.

Zige stood in front of the main gate of the Jiaofang Palace, and the bright sunlight hit her face, making her unable to see the towering Biwa Zhuying and the cornices and cliffs for a while. The steep steps meander up, and she lowers her head and slowly steps up the stairs, but there is a hint of melancholy in her heart that she has revisited the old place.

In this huge palace, the Jiaofang Hall carries the most childhood memories of Zige. At that time, her father was still the founding father, and her aunt was the queen of the world, she had been in and out of the harem countless times, mischievous in the palace, broke countless porcelain, practiced swords and swings in the courtyard with Gao Zhen and the palace maids, and sat restlessly in the front hall to listen to people chatting about the shortcomings of the family.

It's a pity that the Jiaofang Palace can restore its old appearance, but the people of the past are gone.

Where is the beauty in the pavilion now, the piano outside the threshold is empty.

"Nanzhao County Lord Mu Yulian has arrived-"

The shrill voice of the eunuch in front of the door woke up Zige, who was immersed in old memories, and Qi Nan had already entered the hall first, so she lowered her head and followed Lian'er into the hall.

According to Gao Yang's requirements, the decoration in the Jiaofang Hall is no different from the impression of Zige, except that the air is filled with a rich fragrance of flower dew, rather than the fragrance of fresh flowers. On the phoenix couch in the middle of the palace, there is a woman with silkworm eyebrows and phoenix eyes, although she is in her prime, but because of proper maintenance, she still looks quite beautiful, and her gestures exude a graceful and luxurious temperament. Although Zige was not very familiar with other concubines in the past, it can be imagined just by looking at her bearing, she is the current queen Fang Guizhi.

"Lian'er has seen Queen Fang." Lian'er bowed with her clothes and her posture supple, Fang gently bowed her head and invited Lian'er to take a seat with a smile on her face.

Under the Fang clan sat a woman with a fair face and a gentle and amiable demeanor, she raised her eyes to look at Lian'er, and said with a smile: "I often read from books that the climate of Nanzhao is warm and moist, and the women are all handsome. I didn't believe it in the past, but when I see the county lord today, I know what it means to be 'shocked'. ”

Lian'er smiled shyly, how to answer with the concubine, but she had practiced the most in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion before, so she replied without thinking: "Niangniang praised it falsely, Lian'er also saw the two Niangniang, and only then did she understand what 'national color and natural fragrance' were, but Lian'er's demeanor and demeanor could not be learned." ”

Fang Shi looked at her and smiled, and said softly: "Concubine Shu has a poetry and book temperament, and the ordinary people in the palace are not as talented and virtuous as her, even the palace wants to follow her, and put a few volumes of female history on the pillow, but she always has no heart to read it carefully." ”

Concubine Shu smiled with her eyebrows, but there was a hint of self-deprecation in her tone: "My sister has six palace affairs, so she is naturally not as leisurely as me, a person who has nothing to worry about." There is nothing to do in the palace, except for sorting out Buddhist scriptures for the queen mother, only reading some miscellaneous books for fun. ”

Concubine Shu......

Zige glanced at her quietly, and saw her drinking tea quietly, quite at ease, and a little admiration rose in her heart. When she was flipping through the Qingluan newspaper, she had read a few words about her, and she felt that she was a strange woman, and her family background was quite noble, so she also paid attention everywhere.

Concubine Shu Lin Yashu is the cousin of Lin Qian, the Marquis of Anguo, among the Seven Great Meritorious Princes. When Empress Yang opened the palace for the first time to select a show girl, she was recommended to the palace because of her scholarly family and talent, and she was accompanied by the queen mother. I wanted to serve the Buddha with tea and spend my whole life, but later His Majesty intended to envelop a few meritorious marquis, so he asked her to be brought from the Queen Mother. Although Concubine Shu has not been born, she is quite respected by Gaoyang because of the stable and important position of An Guohou in the court, the care of the Queen Mother for her, and her own peaceful and smooth bearing.

"Zhan'er is still here in the palace to ask for peace, and he took care of the mission to Beijing before, I don't know if this road is smooth?"

Fang asked as if unintentionally, Lian'er put down the teacup in her hand and replied, "It's very smooth." Just now I also met the king of Chengjiang by the lotus pond, and he has always taken good care of us. ”

"Lotus pond?" Fang Shi covered his lips with his hands, but he smiled helplessly, "That lotus pond has always been a knot in Zhan'er's heart...... When he was a child, he accidentally fell into the water and almost lost his life, but fortunately, General Liu Yuzhang and Liu went into the water to rescue him, and he escaped. ”

"General Liu? He's very water-based, isn't he? Lian'er unconsciously wrapped one hand in her sleeve, as if she wanted to take out the piece of paper in her arms to check her name.

"General Liu once commanded the naval army, and practiced every day on the Qinchuan River, how can the water be bad?" Concubine Shu explained warmly, and when Lian'er heard this, a bright smile slowly bloomed on her face.

Lian'er didn't see Liu Yu...... General Liu is such a figure, he is too clumsy. She lowered her head, her cheeks reddening.

Zige secretly screamed in his heart. I haven't told Lian'er and Pan my conjecture because I am afraid that I will fall into Gao Zhan's trap by mistake and mistakenly send Lian'er's happiness. Unexpectedly, in that question and answer, Gao Zhan saw the clue, and sent a message to the queen to reveal the news to Lian'er in such a short time.

She was thinking about how to remedy it later, but she saw Fang Clan wave her hand lightly, motioning for the palace maid to serve a snack for Lian'er. Zige glanced at it and immediately frowned. The rouge cake and plum red double happiness on the plate are ordinary things, but the Dingsheng cake seems to be made according to Mu Lixuan's recipe, but the word 'welcome' is not engraved on the face.

"I heard that the county lord likes sweets, so the palace sent the people in the back kitchen to make some pastries, and I hope the county lord will not dislike it." Fang said with a smile, and the matter of Liu Yuzhang was just pointed.

Lian'er raised her hand and took a Dingsheng cake and put it in her mouth, but she was slightly surprised, and said softly: "This recipe is made of boiling wine with green plums and blending it into bean paste as a filling......

When Zige heard this, he was shocked again. This sentence was unintentionally said when she was chatting with Lian'er one day, and she commented on the new recipe that she and Mu Lixuan revised together. It's just that Mu Lixuan only made a few plates of pastries as samples at that time, and did not write down a conclusive recipe, where did the queen get the recipe?

In other words, if the queen can easily obtain the recipe that Zige and Mu Lixuan changed casually in the kitchen, it means that she has been secretly paying attention to every move in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. This plate of sweet and soft pastries was not the queen's intention, but it was a warning from her.

Zige silently watched Lian'er, the queen and Concubine Shu laughing and talking about pastries and tea scriptures, and the fingers on her lap slowly tightened and clenched her skirt.